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Campbell at 21/Sony at 31http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/112017
Campbell at 21/Sony at 31
Litman, Jessica
When copyright lawyers gather to discuss fair use, the most common refrain is its alarming expansion. Their distress about fair use’s enlarged footprint seems completely untethered from any appreciation of the remarkable increase in exclusive copyright rights. In the nearly forty years since Congress enacted the 1976 copyright act, the rights of copyright owners have expanded markedly. Copyright owners’ demands for further expansion continue unabated. Meanwhile, they raise strident objections to proposals to add new privileges and exceptions to the statute to shelter non-infringing uses that might be implicated by their expanded rights. Copyright owners have used the resulting uncertainty over the scope of liability for new uses to litigate some new businesses into bankruptcy before their legality could be determined. These developments push fair use to shelter new uses and users. When lawyers for copyright owners complain that fair use has stretched beyond their expectations, they fail to acknowledge their own responsibility for its growth. This Article takes up these questions with particular attention to the thirty-one-year-old decision in Sony v. Universal Studios, and Congress’s assumptions about individual and contributory liability for personal copying before and after the Sony case.
Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/1120172015-06-27T00:00:00ZSubgroup Formation in Teams Working with Robotshttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111882
Subgroup Formation in Teams Working with Robots
Robert, Lionel; You, Sangseok
Teams are increasingly adopting robots to accomplish their work. Despite this, more research is needed to understand what makes these teams effective. One such topic not fully explored is the formation of subgroups in teams that work with robots. We conducted a pilot study to explore this topic. The study examined 15 teams of 2 people, each team member working with a robot to accomplish a team task. Results of the pilot study showed that subgroups formed between humans and their robots were negatively correlated with various team outcomes. Although our results are preliminary, we believe our findings can initiate future research on the topic of subgroup formation in teams working with robots.
Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/1118822015-04-18T00:00:00ZTrust Happens: A Multi-route Model of Trust Formation In Virtual Teamshttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111878
Trust Happens: A Multi-route Model of Trust Formation In Virtual Teams
Caisy, Hung; Dennis, Alan; Robert, Lionel
For over a decade, the dominant theoretical model of trust formation in virtual teams has
been a rational assessment of team members’ ability, integrity and benevolence. Building on the traditional dual process theories of cognition and newer theories of unconscious cognition, we argue that although this model is appropriate in some cases, there are other ways of forming trust in virtual teams. In this paper, we examine how two distinctly different forms of cognition – planned, rational cognition and unconscious, automatic cognition – are both used to form trust and the situational factors that lead team members to engage in one or the other. Because these forms of cognition are separate and distinct, we develop a process model to explain how and why the different forms of cognition are invoked. Within each part of the process model, we develop a separate variance model that examines the factors that would affect trust formed by that process.
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/1118782012-12-17T00:00:00ZHealthy Divide or Detrimental Division? Subgroups in Virtual Teamshttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111876
Healthy Divide or Detrimental Division? Subgroups in Virtual Teams
Robert, Lionel
Subgroup formation, the emergence of smaller groups within teams, has been found to be detrimental to teamwork in virtual teams. Recently, however, an alternative view of the effects of subgroup formation proposes that the formation of subgroups is not always bad. When subgroups are based on identity characteristics like race and gender they are likely to have negative effects, but when they are not, subgroups can have positive effects on teamwork. This paper empirically examines this proposition. Results of our study generally support the proposed assertion. When subgroups are not based on race or gender they are positively associated with perceptions of social integration and open communication. However, when they are based on race and gender they are negatively associated with perceptions of social integration and open communication. The implications of this study demonstrate that subgroups may in many cases be beneficial rather than detrimental to virtual teams.
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/1118762015-06-13T00:00:00Z